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Australia’s Labor Party lurches to the Right- example Paul Howes attack on The Greens

I always thought that Paul Howes had his own political career firmly in mind. Now, as the Greens sever their support from Labor, Howes sees an opportunity to move up in the Party, as it wobbles its way further to the Right.

Howes has previously compared The Greens to the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) which brought about a traumatic split within Labor.

Howes does not seem to grasp the fact that The Greens have a very clear agenda for a sustainable economy, providing both jobs and the very basis of the economy, a clean environment.  Today, Howes criticises the fact that the Greens support polices towards those aims, whether those polices are Labor’s or Liberals. They have no obligation to mindlessly support Labor, as Howes seems to think.

In an interview with Tony Jones, on ABC Lateline ( http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-20/howes-calls-for-greens-destruction/4530952?section=qld)  Howes calls for Greens’ destruction,

In a fairly vitriolic attack on Greens leader, Christine Milne, Howes praises the Mineral Resources Rent Tax, but fails completely to refute Christine Milnes very clear exposition of the reasons why this tax is a failure.

“…..TONY JONES: Now in July of last year when the Labor/Green alliance was still very much alive you described the Greens as “extremists who threaten Australia’s democracy” and that the Labor Party, you said, “should concentrate its efforts on destroying them”. Will that now happen?

PAUL HOWES: Absolutely…….

TONY JONES:……this is what Bob Brown says, “the increasingly powerful Howesian Labor cause has a simple political recipe to prefer the Liberals over the Greens”. What do you say to that?

PAUL HOWES: Howesian! I’d rather be a Howesian than an Earthian…..

..the Greens are no different than the Liberals insomuch as they are a political party that stands for values that are fundamentally different to the values of the Labor Party…”

February 20, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, Christina reviews